James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 6, line 5, to delete “section 3(3) and (5)” and substitute “section 3(3) and (8)".

There is a significant amount of cross referencing involved in the amendments. Accordingly, I propose to take the following legal and consequential amendments together, amendments Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7. Amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 5 arise from the renumbering caused by amendment No. 7 while amendment No. 6 is a drafting amendment to bring it into line with amendment No. 7.
The purpose of amendments Nos. 6 and 7 is to introduce an explicit public interest consideration where the Minister is making regulations in relation to the following matters: adding to the list of authorised disclosees as per the definition of authorised disclosee in section 2(1); adding to the list of specified persons as per the definition of specified person in section 2(1); adding to the health related purposes in secondary purposes for which the individual health identifier, IHI, and the related identifying particulars can be processed as per the substantive amendment, amendment No. 4, to paragraph (g) of secondary purposes; restricting access to the information in the individual health identifier register as per the substantive amendment, amendment No. 10, to section 10; and restricting the disclosure by specified persons of information in the register to other specified persons and authorised disclosees as well as limiting the secondary purposes for which such information might be used by authorised disclosees. This relates to substantive amendment No. 11 to section 11.
In determining the public interest, the Minister is required to have due regard to protecting the privacy of individuals and securing the effective achievement of one or more than one relevant purpose. I should add, for completeness, that in all the above cases, any such regulations will also be subject to consultation with the Data Protection Commissioner.